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Perfecting the Catching-up: The Case of Taiwan's Motorcycle Industry

Sato, Yukihito - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The final stage of the catching-up process has formidable hurdles. This paper examines the case of Taiwanâ€™s motorcycle industry and shows how latecomers overcame the hurdles. In the early 1990s, the two largest motorcycle makers in Taiwan, Sanyang and Kwang Yang, had completed the...

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The Iron and Steel Industry in Asia: Development and Restructuring

Sato, Hajime - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The paper examines the development and restructuring of the iron and steel industry in Asian countries. Studying countries that have integrated steelworks with large blast furnaces (South Korea, Taiwan, China and India) and countries without (Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia), the paper shows...

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Diversified boundaries of the firm

Kimura, Koichiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

We analyze diversification of boundaries of local firms in developing countries under the economic globalization. The … globalization has an aspect of homogenization of the world economy, but also has another aspect of diversification through … international economic activities. Focusing on boundary-level of the firm, this article shows that the diversification from a …

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Strategic trade policy and non-linear subsidy : in the case of price competition

Yoshino, Hisao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In a strategic trade policy, it is assumed, in this paper, that a government changes disbursement or levy method so that the reaction function of home firm approaches infinitely close to that of foreign firm. In the framework of Bertrand-Nash equilibrium, Eaton and Grossman[1986] showed that...

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Boundaries of firms and catching up by latecomers in global production networks : the case of a Mexican auto-parts manufacturer

Hoshino, Taeko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

For manufacturing firms in developing countries, there are high barriers to entry and to catching up with competitors in their global production networks (GPNs). This paper examines the case of a Mexican auto-parts manufacturer that succeeded in catching up in the automotive GPN. The author...

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The Policy Making Process in FTA Negotiations: A Case Study of Japanese Bilateral EPAs

Higashi, Shigeki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper analyzes Japanese bilateral EPA negotiations, focusing on the areas that each country decided were most important, as well as which actors played the most important roles in each set of negotiations. The negotiations with Mexico and Thailand, which tried to increase agricultural...

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Myanmar Sugar SMEs: History, Technology, Location and Government Policy

Thein, San; Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in sugar processing in Myanmar appeared in the last decade of the socialist era. An acute sugar deficit, restricted trade in white sugar, and high demand from the conventional dairy business led to the growth of sugar SMEs by appropriate blending of...

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Growth strategies in a greener world

Nabeshima, Kaoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Two new developments in the global landscape - growing concerns towards global warming and the rising prices of commodities â€“ require countries to craft new growth strategies. These recent developments in the global market offer fresh industrial opportunities as well as difficulties for...

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Platforms, network effects and small business dynamics in China : case study of the Shanzhai cell phone industry

Ding, Ke; Pan, Jiutang - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper seeks to argue the significance of platforms on emerging markets through a case study of the Shanzhai cell phone industry in Shenzhen, China. In this industry, value chains are being driven by both the technology platforms and the market platforms. The former include MTK baseband...

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Slow and steady wins the race : how the garment industry leads industrialization in low-income countries

Fukunishi, Takahiro; Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper investigates how the garment industry escapes this vicious cycle and argues for the validity of labor-intensive industry as a starting point for full-fledged industrialization, even though it might at first seem to be a digression from the path to an innovation-led economy. By...

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